Oregon Food Bank

 Hey, guys. I haven't been blogging much, but today I went to the Oregon Food Bank and remembered to blog about it. For two hours, we (Me and my dad) and five other people at the table took almond cereal and bagged them, weighed them at one-and-a-half pounds, and tied them and put them in a bag. Then, we took the bags and put them into boxes, four or six in a box. Those were to be shipped off to different "pantries" in specific counties in Oregon. The pantries were a store that people poor or in need of food would go to and pick up food in bags, boxes, and cans. This is all for free. All the food that goes bad gets composted, so nothing is really wasted. They also take in things like dented cans, things past sell-by-dates (not expiration date!) and put them in a separate room where they would be repacked, rebagged, and put into different containers with different labels.This was a really cool leadership project, and I would like to do it again sometime, but with a different part of the Food Bank. The Oregon Food Bank also teaches people how to Garden to save money, and how to cook for their families. The results in the end were bigger than expected. We bagged 4788 pounds of almond cereal, which is 3990 meals, or 40 meals per person. That's about 100 people that volunteered! It felt really good doing something like this forpeople in need, and I hope to do it again sometime.

-Brandon M.
P.S- I'm volunteering at testing tomorrow.

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